Sleep Behaviors of Infants and Young Children Associated Demographic and Acculturation Characteristics Among Hispanic Teen Mothers

摘要

Research has highlighted a number of risk factors associated with infant sleep death. Accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed disproportionately impacts infants younger than 1 year and is commonly associated with infant sleep practices.810 Sleep practices linked to ASSB among infants and toddlers include sleeping prone (face down), bed sharing with other children or adults, arid the presence of soft bedding arid items such as stuffed animals in the sleep space.911 The American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends that infants and toddlers avoid bed sharing with parents in an adult bed and sleep in a supine position, on a firm mattress, and free of excess and soft bedding and toys to lessen the risk of preventable sleep-related infant deaths.